Schism Tracker
More info
- Type
- Tracker
- Released
- 2003
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Website
- schismtracker.org
- Source
- github.com/schismtracker
Free reimplementation of Impulse Tracker that stays as close to the DOS original as it possibly can.
Schism Tracker was started around 2003 by Storlek as a portable clone of Impulse Tracker 2.x — the same keyboard-driven interface, the same effect commands, but written in C on top of SDL so it runs on Linux, macOS and Windows instead of bare DOS. It plays and edits IT, XM, S3M and MOD.
The goal is fidelity, not new features: scene musicians who learned IT's quirks in the 1990s can sit down without relearning anything. The project is still actively maintained — unusual for a tool whose entire purpose is preserving a program from 1995.